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What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: October 2016 Digest

This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration and release pipeline to Azure. With the rapidly expanding list of features in Team Services, teams can start to leverage it more efficiently for all areas of their Azure workflow, for apps written in any language and deployed to any OS.

Git best practice with Team Services: Branch Policies

How can you ensure you are finding bugs before they’re introduced into your codebase while still ensuring you have the right people reviewing? Branch policies can go a long way to enhancing your Pull Requests workflow.

Enable continuous deployment to App Stores with Team Services

New features released in September 2016

Two rounds of Team Services updates in September empower your team to get stuff done faster so you can enjoy those pumpkin spice lattes and the crisp autumn air. Custom work item types, more static analysis options in builds and a new feedback option in the Exploratory Testing extension are just a few among many new delightful updates.

Build and Release pricing update

Release Management is coming out of trial mode in Team Foundation Server “15”. Learn more to see how teams get billed for releases in Team Services and TFS post TFS “15” release.

New build queue tab

A redesign of the Queued builds experience in the Build hub brings richer details of your queued/running builds in a more intuitive way.

Changes to the way you log into Team Services

The new screens simplify login for users in organizations that use Azure Active Directory, bringing the experience more in line with the way you login to Azure, Office 365, etc.